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pounds of wild meat at five cents a pound, for the 

 boarding houses for their laborers and mechanics. 



In the year 1883, the company put up tents for 

 the use of guests, and later put up light frame 

 buildings. About this time Gen. Sheridan came 

 through from the south with President Arthur. It 

 was this same year that Mr. Arnold Hague came 

 into the Park to take charge of the Geological 

 Survey work there. 



The effort to secure leases which in practice 

 would give the Yellowstone Park Improvement 

 Company a monopoly of the Park, the high- 

 handed way in which they seized and used the 

 timber, and their efforts to give out a contract for 

 wild meat, aroused a storm of indignation among 

 the people, who best knew what such acts must 

 mean for the public. In the autumn of 1882 the 

 Forest and Stream attacked the proposed monopoly 

 and began a fight which was kept up for a dozen 

 years. Senator Geo. G. Vest sprang to the defense 

 of the Park in Congress, and Messrs. Hague, 

 Phillips and Rogers rendered invaluable aid. A 

 campaign of education was carried on which had 

 a great effect on the country, and thousands of 

 petitions, signed by tens of thousands of people 

 interested in natural things, came into Congress 

 and strengthened the hands of Senator Vest. 



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